Tin has been an utter joy the past week, sweet, charming and full of good spirits. Quite an instant presto change-o from where we were just a mere week ago when I thought I was going to have to take the poison pill to get me out of his misery. But toddlers are pretty transparent – if he doesn’t want to do something he will bite, kick, hit, and scream. Other adults I’ve known are…
We had a good monsoon yesterday, New Orleans style rain, the kind where the sky crackles and a gut pouring of rain comes down in sheets all of a sudden. Love it. Love the rain in New Orleans – it’s one of a kind. The city has been in such a sorry state without it recently – the grass is drying up along the bayou, the Queen Palms in my yard were looking a little…
It’s raining, it’s pouring – listen to this beautiful Turkish rendition of Jose Feliciano’s Listen to the Falling Rain.
The other night my friend was sitting at dinner with her great niece who was giggling about the name of our cable company, Cox, obviously confusing it with cocks. Poor Cox, it is no laughing matter. I received my USAA member magazine that lists ways to save money instantly and the tops on the list is cutting the cable cord. Since around here we watch like a nanosecond of regular TV and the rest is…
There has been something dead inside of me that I only became aware of after I buried it. In the Jewish religion, we bury our dead in 24 hours so that we can start the grieving process believed to be only possible after burial. I’ve found lately that sometimes these literal interpretations of religion don’t serve me. My mother was near dead for six months in the hospital, and I had to begin my grieving…
A while back someone sent me a card that said Real Women Don’t Have Hot Flashes They Have Power Surges and so begins Monday.
Okay so Sunday is Family Day too! Pancakes in the morning and pool in the afternoon. The great thing about this pool is that it cost very little to install! Requires no maintenance! And it fits a bunch of people and feels terrific on a hot, summer’s day.
Yesterday was a terrific summer’s day. I romped in the Couturie Forest with a friend who I have not been able to catch up with for a long time. I went to the Farmer’s Market and finally got my knives sharpened and got some delicious summer squash, Creole tomatoes, gulf shrimp and peaches! I came home and we all got in the larger than life family pool that I blew up with the air mattress…
So you know how they say beauty is in the eyes of the beholder? And well, it is. This morning I went with a friend and our dogs to the Couturie Forest in City Park, which I’ve been hearing about for a while now. Yes, I was expecting a forest, but the sad fact is that most of the forest was denuded by the Federal Flood and the subsequent clean up that took away all…
When the Tennessee Williams Festival was happening, it felt so good to be reimmersed once again in literature – oh yeah, remember that old chestnut. A long time ago when I was figuring out my life I figured it would revolve around literature and art and whatnot, instead somewhere about 16 years ago, I started working in the financial industry where well read authors were those who wrote books called Blink, The 7 Habit of…